How to Use frontiersman in a Sentence

frontiersman

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  • But the ad-hoc project brought out the best in frontiersmen.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 3 July 2017
  • At Little Bighorn, Kellogg was less the reporter and much more the frontiersman.
    — Patrick Springer / Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 6 July 2019
  • Frontiersmen climbed up on the damask furniture to catch a sight of Jackson.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Not like his friend and fellow frontiersman, Daniel Boone.
    — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 18 July 2017
  • Simon Kenton was a legendary frontiersman in Ohio and the Midwest for whom the county is named.
    — Melissa Reinert, Cincinnati.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Idaho was named, in the eighteen-sixties, by a frontiersman huckster who claimed to speak Shoshone.
    — Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The game lets players take on the role of frontiersman who acquire land and swap resources with other players.
    — cleveland.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • John Filson, one of the founders of Cincinnati who died before it was settled in 1788, wrote the first biography of what frontiersman?
    — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 May 2021
  • Based on real-life frontiersman Hugh Glass, there's a reason Leonardo won his first Oscar with this role.
    — Annie O’Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 29 June 2022
  • Kentucky The frontiersman and statesman in the seal represent the people of Kentucky: country and city inhabitants of 1792, when the state was joined the Union.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The most common, according to the board, is that the mountain is named for the brave servant of a pre-Revolutionary War frontiersman Col.
    — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 10 Sep. 2019
  • From this stock and their exploits sprang our national myth of the frontiersman-patriot.
    — John Daniel Davidson, National Review, 11 July 2019
  • Our history brims with the frontiersman and the immigrant who leave a home and strike out for some new adventure, building a new home and a new life for themselves.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020
  • In 1769, frontiersman Daniel Boone began to explore present-day Kentucky.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2018
  • Plot: This movie is actually the first three episodes of the five-part miniseries of Davy Crockett, a real-life frontiersman who became a legend.
    — Lauren Hill, chicagotribune.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • He was nominated for best actor for all of them, winning for his turn as a frontiersman that survives a bear mauling in the 2015 feature.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 30 Dec. 2021
  • In a bolero hat and cowboy boots, the real estate developer — who also owns Calahua, the world’s second-largest producer of coconut cream — looks the part of the frontiersman.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Your frontiersman now has the ability to saddle up on the back of a tamed beast, considerably reducing the downtime between fights.
    — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Roosevelt and his neighbors were not exactly the primitive frontiersmen of folk legend, or even of the slightly less distant past.
    — Declan Leary, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
  • And then there are the inherent incongruities of having women play rugged frontiersmen.
    — Robert W. Butler, kansascity, 10 Sep. 2017
  • The sheriff’s uniform shirt is a frontiersman-khaki color.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Lizzo returned to campus this month to visit with the Spirit of Houston, which includes the band, cheerleaders, dance mascots, twirlers and frontiersman.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 26 Aug. 2019
  • While some of the stories of this bombastic frontiersman may have been fiction, Bowie is still an iconic figure in Texas history and viewed as an American hero.
    — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 27 Jan. 2020
  • The deal protects a region that is eight times the size of San Francisco and remains very much as 19th century frontiersman Kit Carson experienced it.
    — Louis Sahagún Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • It was originally named after real-life frontiersman David or Davy Crockett, who became known in popular culture as the king of the wild frontier.
    — Naomi Kaskela, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2021
  • So much for the image of the rugged American frontiersman, gun in hand, experiencing his primordial oneness with the wilderness, so beloved by gun rights advocates.
    — Patrick Blanchfield, New Republic, 11 Dec. 2017
  • This was a breakfast-time cocktail that frontiersmen were drinking, not a seasonal staple choked down while wearing a beautiful, yet, comically large hat.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 10 Apr. 2023
  • In the hallway, students use construction paper to create two life-size Instagram accounts for American frontiersman Davy Crockett — with captions written in the first and third person.
    — Katy Bergen, kansascity.com, 16 May 2017
  • Roosevelt, by contrast, would cultivate the twin modes of frontiersman and exacting naturalist.
    — Philip Dray, Time, 1 May 2018
  • Throughout Mother American Night Barlow’s exquisite understanding of power—and his tendency to channel it in the spirit of a heroic (white, male) frontiersman—shines through.
    — Jesse Jarnow, WIRED, 5 June 2018

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